Pipe-stem cleaner.



No. 817,683. l PATENTED APR.10, 1906. B. P. ESHELMAN.

PIPE STEM CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED Nov.1o, 1905.

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BENJAMIN F. ESHELMAN, OF TAC/GMA, WASHINGTON.

PiPE-STEM Specication of Letters Patent.

CLEANER.

Patented April 10, 1906.-

Applicati'on filed November l0, 1905. Serial No. 286.717.

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Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. EsHEL- MAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing at Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and Stateof Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPipe-Stem Cleaners, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to This invention relates to smoking pipe stems, andhas forits objects to provide a stem in which the smoke-passage can bekept always clean and dry, in which the cleaning attachment is inclosed,and is therefore always ready at hand, and in which the smoke-passagemay be cleaned practically without interrupting the act of smoking.

I attain these objects by the devices illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal cross-section ofa pipe and stem on the plane of the smoke-passage. Fig. 2 is asimilarview on the plane of the cleaner. Fig. 3 is a horizontallongitudinal section. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the mouthpieceand cleaner separated from the stern, the mouthpiece having been turnedto connect with a new passage in the stem.

Similar numerals of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

This invention consists in providing the stem of an ordinary pipebowllwith two straight passages leading from the bowl to I the outer endand in attaching to the other end a reversible mouthpiece which has apassage leading from the center of its end to a point registering witheither one of the two passages in the stem and which has, further, acleaning-wire projecting outward in exactly corresponding position, sothat it will enter the passage in the stem with which the airpassage isnot connected. Thus if one smokej passage of the stem becomes clogged itis only l necessary to pull out the mouthpiece, as in Fig. 4, and turnit over and insert the cleaning-wire in the passage which has becomeclogged, thus causing the passage in the mouthpiece to register with thepassage in 1 the stem from which the just been withdrawn and which istherefore clean. The act of inserting the cleaningwire into the cloggedpassage will clean it by forcing the contents into the bowl, and sincethe wire is warmed from the bowl it will thoroughly dry out the passage.

eferring now to the drawings, l represents the bowl of the pipe, 2 thestem, and 3 the mouthpiece., The end of the stem 2 which is insertedinto the bowl 1 is preferably concaved, as indicated at 4, and the twosmoke-passages 5 and 6 both connect therewith. These two 'passages aremade symmetrical with the center of the stem 2 and are preferablyparallel. The other end of the stem is provided with a metal j ectingover its end and forming a socket into which the mouthpiece 3 fits. Theends of the passages 5 and 6 are enlarged to receive the end of theair-tube of the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece 3 is provided with a singleair-passage 8, extending from the center of its outer end to one side ofits inner end, at which point it registers with either passage 5 or 6,according to which side of the mouthpiece is uppermost. The tube 9 iitsin the end ofthe passage 8 and enters the enlarged end of the passage 5or 6. The cleaning-wire 10 is secured in the inner end of the mouthpiecein symmetrical position with the tubes 9, so that it will enter thepassage 5 or 6 in which the tube 9 is not entered. The wire l0 ispreferably roughened at the part within the mouthpiece, so as to be heldfirmly therein. The wire l() extends the entire length of the stem andinto the hollow part 4.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. In a pipe, thecombination of a bowl, a stem having two sinoke-passages therein, amouthpiece having a single passage therein adapted to connect witheither one of said smoke-passages, and a cleaner secured to saidmouthpiece and adapted to enter and to dry out the smoke-passage withwhich said mouthpiece-passage is not connected.

2. In a pipe, the combination of a stem having smoke-passages thereinarranged symcleaning-wire has sfs band 7, proy metrically of the center,

and a rotatable l piece and lying Within the unused passage inmouthpiece having an eccentric passage therelsaid stem. 1 o in adaptedto connect with different passages In testimony whereof I aHiX mysignature in said stein in diilerent positions thereof. in presence oftwo Witnesses.

3. A pipe having a bowl, a stem with a plu- BENJAMN F. ESHELMAN. ralityof symmetrical passages therein, a Witnesses: mouthpiece adapted toconnect with any of l M. H. COREY, saidpassages, acleaner secured tosaid mouthl M. A. VAN HOUSE.

